Colander.



' M. A. BAILIPF.

GOLANDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1a, 1908.

Patented Sept. 14

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

MARY A. BAILIFF, 013 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH T RAYMOND IVES BLAKESLEE, 0]? LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

GOLANDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

Application filed May 18, 1908. Serial No. 433,607.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY A. BAILIEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Colanders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to colanders, and has for its object to provide an improved device which shall be relatively simple and inexpensive in construction convenient and highly eflicient in use, and capable of thorough cleansing.

The invention consists in the combination, association and relative arrangement of parts as hereinafter described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and finally pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view of a colander constructed according to and embodying the'inv'ention; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same; Fig. 3 is a detail enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken upon the line 33, Fig. 5, and looking in the direction of the appended arrows; Fig. 4 is an isometric view, partly broken away, of a feature of the improved construction in detached position and inverted; and Fig. 5 is a detail enlarged transverse sectional view.

Referring with particularity to the drawing, the improved colander comprises a concave perforated receptacle A, a pestle B, a receiving receptacle 0, and a guide member 12. The perforated receptacle A, with the pestle and its guide member, is supported upon and projects within the receiving receptacle G, into which latter are introduced the materials or substances forced or passed through the perforated receptacle A, during the manipulation of the pestle.

The perforated receptacle A, in which the fruit, vegetable or other product or material to be treated is placed, comprises a hemispherical body-portion 6, having a plurality of perforations 7, the curvature of said body-portion being substantially uniform at all points around a point 13, forming a cup-shaped vessel of pre-determined dimensions, and of sufficient depth to accommodate the amount of material which it may be desired to treat therein at any one time. The curved body portion 6 is preferably spun, pressed orstruck from a suitable metallic blank, and the edge portion or rim 8 thereof is provided with a rein-' forcing wire insertion 9 about which said edge portion is folded'or lapped; said edge portion being adapted to rest upon the top edge portion 10 of the receiving receptacle 0, whlch latter may be of any suitable form or construction. The stem 0 of the pestle B carries the head cl at one end and the handle 6 at the other end thereof. Either said head or handle is detachably mounted upon said stem; and said head has a curved operative surface portion 11 which corresponds to the curvature of the body portion 6 within said perforated receptacle at all points, so as to have a free rolling and sliding contact with the inner surface portion of said perforated receptacle.

The guide member consists of a bar or plate 12 which extends across and above the receptacle A and is engaged with the edge portion or rim of the latter at two points; said bar or plate 12 being formed to accommodate and guide the stem 0 of the pestle B in free longitudinal and oscillatory movement so that the head d may traverse the inner surface portion of said perforated receptacle, substantially throughout the entire area of the latter. To this end the bar or plate 12 is formed or provided with a countersunk opening 13 standing at the center of the hemispherical receptacle A, and the minimum diameter of this opening is greater than the diameter of the stem 0.

E designates means for connecting the guide member with the perforated receptacle A; and said means are duplicated for each end of the bar or plate 12. Said means E comprise a downturned head 14, one at each end of the bar 12; and a tongue 15 projecting from the edge portion or rim 8 of the receptacle A, one such tongue for each of said heads 14, said tongues being arranged preferably at diametrically opposite portions of the edge portions or the rim 8; and each of said tongues being formed to fit and enter a transverse internal groove 16 formed in the respective head 14. The tongues 15 may be formed integral with the body portion 6 of the receptacle A, a sufficient portion of the material of such body portion, in each instance, being outwardly projected, by cutting and bending said material, as most clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 5. Each of the grooves 16 is extended but part way across the inner surface portion of the respective portion or rim 8 of the receptacle A, adjacent to the tongues 15, and giving the bar12; a slight turn from its central point, the tongues 15 are caused to enter the grooves 16 and firmly hold the guide member in op erative position to the full extent required under normal Working conditions. A re verse movement of the'bar IQdisengagesthe same from thereceptac'le.

The operation and advantages of'the' improved utensil, device orapparatus constiltuting the colander whichcomprises the in vention, will be readily understood from the foregoing, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the following statement.

The perforated receptacle is superposed upon a suitable receiving receptacle C, so that the curved body portion 6' depends within the receiving receptacle, whereby the matter or material-forced through-the perfrations 7 by the implement B may be ac= cumulated within the receptacle'C. The re inforced edgeportion or rim 8 supports the receptacle A firmly upon the rim or edgeportion 10 of the receptacle G. The guide member is secured in position transversely ofthe perforated receptacle A- by the con: necting means E, the tongues 15 entering the transverse grooves 16, with the stem 0 of the pestle B projecting through theopening 13 in the bar or plate-12 said opening permitting free play of the stem therethrough and therein. The head (i maybe manipulated throughthe stemc, by means of the handle 6, so that the curved operative surface portion 1.1 of said head may have a free rolling and sliding contact with the inner surface portion of the concave body por tion 6 of the receptacle A. As the head'd pressing or squeezing, thoroughly macerates the contents of the perforated receptacle A, such as fruit or vegetables, and

forces the liquid or finely divided portions Because of thefree'play of thestenrc through-andwithin-the countersunk opening 5 1 -3, in the bar-or platelQ, all of the perforated area ofthebody-portions- 6 may: be reached by the head (Z, and all of the/contents of thereceptacle-A, within. the limits of customary use, may be subjeeted'toagitm tion and pressure.

The parts of the colander may be readily detached for cleansing or for storage or shipment; by separating either the handle 6 or the head' (Z; or both, from thest'em 0, and by disconnecting the bar or plate IQfromihe tongues 1 5 upon the receptacle A.

What is claimed' isz' r In a-colander, the combinationwith-a coneave perforated receptacle having radially projecting tongues, a support for the recep tacle, and a pestl'eyof a gu-idemember consisting of'abar perforated for the pestle and havin downturned headsa-t its-extremities provided with internal circumferential grooveseXtendi-ngi relatively in opposite directions and adapted to removably engage the saidtongues.

In testimony whereofi-I havesigned my name tothis specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARY A. BAILIFF.

Witnesses-2 GAL. F. HuN'rnn, RAYMOND I. BLAKESLEE;

ofthe same through the perforations 7 and "into the receiving receptacle C. 

